Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-11-26

alske e requesi that agents secur, houses for people who live in Indiana Illinois and Ohio. This sFises from th, fact that people eest are not informed II the land laws, and .hink that all that il necessary in taking claims is for th, papers to be filed by n agent, and then they csn pay out on the land the sam' Rs though the purchase was from private individuals.
 Any person except soldiers and sol Hers heirs must make affidavit that they are scqusirted with the land they srs entering, and also make affidavit that tC Inc best of their knowledge there is nc mineral on the same.
 PBE-yAPIIoss
 Section l76 says that every person being the head of 8 family, widow. oI SID gle person over the age of tventy-one snd citizen of the United States, or having filed declaration of intention Co becUme such, as required by the natural lzaiioo laws. who has made or hereafter I-hkea SETTLEMENT IN PERSON on the pubho lands subject to pre-ernption, and who iuhabits aud improves the same and who has erected 6 dwelling thereon is authorized to enter with the register of the United States land office for the dis ,rict in which tho land hes, by legal sub division any number of acres not en- ceadirs one hundred and sixty acres or q quarter section of land to include the residence of such claimant upon paying .se United States minimum price of such land. No person who Is the rro- prietOr of three hundred and twenty 3e-es can pre-empt land. No person who quits or abspdons his own land Co reside on pubic land in tbe same state or territory can pre-empt. Persons can however, take homestesds and timber claims whether he has tie three hundred and twenty acres or not; neither does the law prohibit his taking a homestead FEen he has left Q residence on has own .sGd. The above only refers to pre- 5npiions-
 The Rrst requirement ip taking 6 pre- -npiion IS to select the quarter section desired. and ascertain from the Land Office record that it is vacant and sub .get to entry. He must then make some 10 2rovements- Not stick up stakes, out make some substantial improve Eeais. and then within ninety days file statement for the land in Inc local land office, the fees for winch gre three dollars. A residence must be sstsblishe on the land when the improv- meats are first begun. and continuous residence is obligatory.
 After q continuous residence upon a pre- -eInption for six months settlement ,aa be proven and the government prIce oeing paid, there will be final receipt sGGed to the pre-emptor; but ID case .:iLsr dOcs not desire to make final proof at the end of six months, he has .hlriy three months from the time he aGds settlement
 HOMESTEAD
 Entries must be made in person, usually 1cfcrc the Register of the local Land Office and the e1try fees are sixteen ioliers. The requirements of the home .tcad isw are about the same es those 1f the pre-eruption, except that residence 'sn be established within six months sfier nekiua fling; but homestesds are 70 II feet to contests if settlers fail 10 get ,r. She land inside of six months after sI.sy. HomesteGds may be proved up p six months and paid out on, the same s Dre-empsious. but can be proved up in s1 years without paying. In making irsl proof the settler will be required 70 give the number of times he or she ,as been absent from the claim, where aent, End for what they went, and are luesiiJred regarding the amount of im- they have, If in the judgment )f the Register snd Receiver the law has got been complied with they will not is- iue final receipt.
 TIMBER CLAIMS
 Do rot require 6 residence. Timber claims must be entered by personal sp- olication sworn to within the land dis ,ric, where the land is situated, before some officer having seal and author .zed to administer oath. Claimant must nave iye acres broken the first year, the ,cccud year mus. have five scses broken nd 5ulatyate the first breaking. the .hiYd year must put trees, geeds or ,ulsiugs in the first five acres and culti- rate the ssennd five; the fourth year cust se. cut the second five acres ID trees, tree seed. CT tree cuttings. If ID .igEt ysBrs there are six thousand seven and fifty growing trees on the ,ract, claimant can make final proof and ieouEe patent Government fees in timber culture claims are fourteen dol .GTs for entry and ten dollars for final proof.
 All duties required by the timber cul- .ure lava nay be done by others except he entry and final proof; nor is he CT shs required to reside near the land but Fill always be expected to comply with he IsE in regard to improvements.
 There is no fixed amount of improve acE.0 required ip homestead or pre- riion law, residence and cultivation ID good faith ss home and e farm to .te claimants best ability is held to be he requirement of the law.
 SOLDIERS HonxsrKADa
 Soldiers who served ID the United States army for ninety days and were -onorably discharged and have lived oysl 10 the government Gan file declsr- ,tory statements on one hundred and ixty acres of vacant land, by an Igens through the power of attorney in . form prescribed by law. This power ,an Dc executed before 6 notary public suy EbcFo ID JUG Oultou Otbtcrp huu ent % some reliable agent who will se- ect the quarter section of land and hle ln II for the soldier. This filing will Iesolutely hold the land for six months Eithou. the residence of claimant. At .Le end of SIX months the solder must oegin a residence and make another iliug, called the final entry, at which .ime he psys fee the same as in home .eBi cases. Soldiers are compelled to i've st least one year on their claims. put they can deduct their service ss 8 oldier from the i've years required by .he common homestead and thus get their 5G.eut ID shorter time than he who has .ct served his country as soldier. Soldiers widows gre entitled to use the IeSessed husbaad's service while ID the ' ST, to assist her in proving up a claim, snd il tue widow is dead. then one of he minor heirs can use the right: but it must be done through the guardian of he child. Widows and orphans of sol iie will not be required to cultivate he iapd or .o personally do the work out can cause the same to be done by others capable to do practical farming. Good faith a1d cultivation to the best of !he ability of claimant Is all that the law requires.